UX Architect / Lead UX Designer

As a UX Architect / Lead UX Designer, you will be responsible for defining and delivering intuitive and compelling user experiences for large-scale enterprise applications for Impetus customers and / or products.

You will collaborate with clients, fellow data scientists and engineers to deliver great-looking, usable designs for products / web applications having advanced data visualizations for enterprise businesses. You will use user-centered design principles to produce high-quality designs.

This position requires one to have a good blend of both interaction design and visual design skills.

Responsibilities

• Working with customers for understanding, capturing and even defining the requirements
• Working with the team to define the architecture, user flows and experiences to solve customer requirements and enhance user experience
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary team of UI architects and engineers, to deliver intuitive and compelling user experiences for large-scale enterprise applications for an extensive client list and / or Impetus products.
• Provide leadership to the design team by leading, mentoring, and supporting the team on complex user research and interaction design projects
• Helping create information design concepts by means of maps, story boards, sketches, and prototyping
• Develop reusable design patterns and components for varied product needs
• While this is not a UI engineering position, you should be comfortable discussing implementation issues with UI architects and engineers

Skills

Required

You must

• Be able to work independently with multiple stakeholders including clients, users, and cross-functional teams to understand their expectations, pain points / needs.
• Have very good understanding of user research, information architecture, navigation models, interaction design and visual design principles.
• Be fully functional with the current releases of Figma.
• Have deep knowledge of typography and grid systems.
• Be extremely detail oriented. Strive for pixel perfect implementation on all devices.
• Have passion for elegant and intuitive user interfaces.
• Be self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project deadlines.
• Have a portfolio that exhibits user-friendly, highly functional, responsive web design work.
• Have a strong design ethic and track record of user experience evangelization and innovative user-centered design thinking.

• Have demonstrated ability to 1) work independently and drive towards deadlines, 2) produce high-quality deliverables for clients, and 3) think creatively to solve problems.
• Have excellent communication and presentation skills, and ability to articulate complex design solutions in clear and presentable form.

Desired

• Good writing and grammar skills
• Good sketching skills
• Good data visualization skills
• Good understanding of color theories

Ideal (Wow us!)

It would be great if you:

• Are personally committed to being aware of trends in web, application, and consumer design—can you name three design blogs you read regularly?
• Can identity, discuss, and learn from design languages coming from many sources, from ads to package design
• Are a natural storyteller, able to make your product visions real to the listener through your words, 
• Can evangelize your work
• Have a strong desire to create highly refined, highly functional, economical designs and see them through to execution
• Are annoyed by bad kerning
• Know the Pantone® values of your favorite colors